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Saint Christopher Church, Fontaine-l'Évêque

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Saint Christopher Church, Fontaine-l'Évêque

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Saint Christopher Church, Fontaine-l'Évêque

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    January 9, 2023

    Dominating the cobbled square, this Gothic-style church was built in limestone in the second half of the 16th century. Partially rebuilt in brick, no doubt in 1714, it was extensively restored and the façade modified in 1872 with the addition of a portal and neo-Gothic windows. The last works were carried out in 1954. Reinforced with multiple buttresses from the 19th century, the building comprises a nave with three bays, two aisles, a non-projecting transept, a choir ending in three sections and a facade tower fitted with a tall slate spire. The roofs, also in slate, rest on stone cornices in cavet on cordon. The nave is pierced in the upper part by three semicircular windows with splayed frames, probably from the 18th century but very heavily modified in the following century. The side aisles are lit by pointed arch windows under 16th century drip edge, most of which have been restored. Those on the south aisle are larger and partially walled in their lower part, inscribed in a facing of bricks on a freestone base. The ribbed vault that covers the building rests on stone bases in the aisles, in the transept and in the choir and on small columns engaged in the nave. The bays of the transept and the choir, narrower at the apse, are framed in a third point hollowed out by a groove, under a drip edge extended into a cord.

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      Location: Fontaine-L'Évêque, Charleroi, Hainaut, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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